(A) The regulations of the special flood hazard herein set forth are intended to protect areas of designated floodplains subject to and necessary for regulating flood waters and to permit and encourage the retention of open-land uses which will be so located and designed as to constitute a harmonious and appropriate part of the physical development of the city as provided in the comprehensive plans as they are adopted and amended from time to time.
(B) The specific intent in establishing the special flood hazard areas composed of floodway and floodway fringe districts includes the following:
(1) To control in flood hazard areas, uses such as fill dumping, storage of materials, structures, buildings and any other works which, acting alone or in combination with other existing or future uses, would cause damaging flood heights and velocities by obstructing flows and reducing floodplain storage;
(2) To protect human life and health;
(3) To minimize the expenditure of public money for costly flood-control projects;
(4) To minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public;
(5) To permit certain uses which can be appropriately located in flood hazard areas and to assure those permitted uses will not impede the flow of flood waters or otherwise cause danger to life and property at or above or below their locations along the floodways;
(6) To minimize prolonged business interruptions;
(7) To provide sufficient drainage courses to carry abnormal flows of stormwater in periods of heavy precipitations;
(8) To minimize damage to public facilities and utilities, such as water and gas mains, electric, telephone and sewer lines and streets and bridges located in floodplains;
(9) To meet the needs of the streams to carry flood waters and protect the creek channels and floodplains from encroachment so that flood heights and flood damage will not be increased;
(10) To help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of flood-prone areas in such a manner as to minimize flood-blight areas; and
(11) To ensure that potential buyers are notified that property is in a flood area.
(C) This chapter is intended to permit only that development within the floodplain which is appropriate in light of the probability of flood damage and presents a reasonable social and economic use of land in relation to the hazards involved. The regulations hereinafter set forth shall apply to all property located within the special flood hazard area and the future conditions flood fringe area as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps and the Floodplain Land Use Maps. It is the intent that these regulations combine with and coordinate with the zoning ordinance regulations for the zoning district in which the property is located. Any use not permitted by the zoning regulations shall not be permitted in the floodway districts or the floodway fringe districts, and any use permitted by the zoning regulations shall be permitted in these districts only upon meeting conditions and requirements as prescribed in this chapter.
(1995 Code, § 26-29) (Ord. 2009-03, passed 2-10-2009; Ord. 2013-02, passed 3-12-2013; Ord. 2014-00, passed 2-11-2014)